This was one of my babies..... Got a little to crazy with her and had to let her go... Had a blueprinted 400 in it with all the bells and whistles.... Just a little shy of 400 HP at the rear wheels... WAY TO MUCH for a convertible.... 5 Speed manual.. I could be running 45 or 50 down the road punch it and she would come right around 180* and to the other way..... It was an 87 IROC which was the 25th Anniversary Edition.... A lot of good memories... Left the local watering hole one night with it after ripping up the parking lot for a few. Had the wheels spinning about 250 yards down the road and when I let off she had developed a slight tick.... So I grabbed 2nd gear and held her to the boards about a 1/2 mile up the road she popped..... Took the engine out the next week and the #8 piston had all but turned to dust and the rod was had destroyed the wall..... So I built a 383 for her and ran it that way for a while but it just NEVER ran right.... Couldn't ever figure it out... At that time summer was over so I pulled the engine out to put in my mud truck (which I will post also) parked the Camaro in the garage thinking I would build a new engine for it over the winter... Had some other things come up and had to off her......

This was one of my babies..... Got a little to crazy with her and had to let her go... Had a blueprinted 400 in it with all the bells and whistles.... Just a little shy of 400 HP at the rear wheels... WAY TO MUCH for a convertible.... 5 Speed manual.. I could be running 45 or 50 down the road punch it and she would come right around 180* and to the other way..... It was an 87 IROC which was the 25th Anniversary Edition.... A lot of good memories... Left the local watering hole one night with it after ripping up the parking lot for a few. Had the wheels spinning about 250 yards down the road and when I let off she had developed a slight tick.... So I grabbed 2nd gear and held her to the boards about a 1/2 mile up the road she popped..... Took the engine out the next week and the #8 piston had all but turned to dust and the rod was had destroyed the wall..... So I built a 383 for her and ran it that way for a while but it just NEVER ran right.... Couldn't ever figure it out... At that time summer was over so I pulled the engine out to put in my mud truck (which I will post also) parked the Camaro in the garage thinking I would build a new engine for it over the winter... Had some other things come up and had to off her......

Ah , Camaro !! Of course, one of the classics... flooring a 400bhp engine on to the rear wheels is a sure recipe for disaster... I would have loved to see it... the AC Cobra too, was well known for facing back more often than front.

But Gosh ! the grunt of those V8s of yours... only we can't afford the fuel consumption... those blocks are thirsty. Your petrol (sorry, gas) is cheap, our Litre is well over 1.60 Euros now...

Agreed JL! We're really spoiled here when it comes to our vehicles and our inexpensive fuel. Not sure what the litre/gallon conversion is off hand, (update: just Googled it....3.785 litres per gallon) but since our fuel went up over $3 dollars a gallon over a year ago, everyone has been complaining. (which obviously we shouldn't do, considering we have some of the least expensive fuel in the world) I can't imagine paying 6 -7 dollars a gallon the way other countries do, although I'm sure we'll be there eventually.

I admit that Jags don't do much for me these days... Morse's car, yes !! But the modern ones...

The Astons on the other hand... "achingly beautiful" (dixit "Hamster" Hammond)... The Vantage with the V12 shoe-horned into it !! What a car!
I was lucky enough to drive a GT4 on track recently (birthday present... every year, I do something extraordinary with cars) in Abu Dhabi.
The sound of that car makes your hair(s) stand on end !!!! Even inside it, where the noise in appalling...
Mad sexagenarian !!

But look at that thing... it is a work of art !! Well done, Brits ! (hem, who owns Aston Martin these days?)

Re: S G S3 owners who love speed !!!

Actually the 2013 Jags are amazing!
My parents stopped by to see me on their way to Seattle this past summer, and they had 6 of them on their truck. They let me climb up and sit in one and start it up (I know I know, sitting in & starting a car doesn't make it nice! lol) but the lush refined inside, outside, throaty growl of the engine, etc was just head and shoulders above anything they've ever made in the past. My parents get to drive the vehicles they transport and my Mom (at 68) REALLY knows cars and she was very impressed. Heck, I was impressed just being able to SIT in it and rev it up. lol
They retired this past August and i'm really going to miss seeing all the new and oftentimes exotic cars they've transported over the years.
Pic of my parents truck.